Do Professors Have a Right to Mistreat Students?

The federal courts are creating a new constitutional right: Public-college teachers can now impose their religious beliefs on students. Only two such cases have been decided thus far, but their rulings come from high federal courts, one from the U.S. Supreme Court and the other from a federal court of appeals. Their similarity of approach, and their resemblance to other extravagant recent treatments of religious liberty by the justices, is grounds for alarm.

I explain in a new piece at the Chronicle of Higher Education, here.  If you don't want to fight your way past the paywall, the argument is developed more fully in a forthcoming article posted at SSRN, here.